Paddling Quotes

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  As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Bad Day

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• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Food, Canoeing

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• The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Big Fish, Storm, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.808, Bantam

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• The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Running, Memorable, Rivers

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Children, Hundred, Canoeing

  "Exhaustion and Fulfillment: The Ascetic in a Canoe" by Pierre Trudeau, www.canoe.ca. 2000.

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• Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Renewal, Source, Canoeing

  "Pierre Elliott Trudeau" profile in "The Greatest Canadian" at CBC, October 29, 2004.

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• I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

  Fred Shero

  Ducks, Water, Training

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• Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Water, Canoeing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.666, Delphi Classics

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• A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rivers, Water, Treasure

  "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Wind, Sailing

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

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• The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Rivers, Delight

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

  Bill Cosby

  Ducks, Secret, Smooth

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• I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rain, Moving, Memorable

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• I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

  John Dos Passos

  Should

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• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

  Scott Stossel

  Ducks, People, Peers

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• Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

  Gerry Lopez

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.

  Bob Marshall

  Home, Memorable, Unique

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• I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Ocean, Passion, Surfing

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

  Gerry Lopez

  Giving Up, Surfing, Life Is

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Rivers, Glasses

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Rivers, Ducks

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.87, Counterpoint Press

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• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Moving, Kids

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